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Mining & the mines, 1891

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A New Mining Concentrator

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 March 1891 · page 7

A valuable addition to mining machinery has been completed to deal with the refuse or quartz tailings which the present crushing and cleaning machines are unable to deal with…

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What Gold Cannot Buy, By MRs. ALEXANDER

Evening News · Monday 30 March 1891 · page 7

Author of "The Wooing O't," "A Life Interest," "A Crooked Path," " Maid, "Wife, or Widow," "Beaton's Bargain," " Mona's Choice," " A Woman's Heart,"…

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The Sunny Corner Mine. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 March 1891 · page 7

Sir, -- With your kind permission, I should like to make a few remarks respecting the above mine. At the last half-yearly meeting, held while the mine was still under the…

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The Italia Mine

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 5

Mr. N. Leoni entertained a number of visitors at the Italia Mine, which is situated nine miles south of Moruya, and one mile west of the main southern road, on March 18. The occasion was…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 7

Residents on the Lucknow goldfield will hardly know their own district when they read the description of the Wentworth Goldfields property given by Mr. Cooper at a meeting of…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--The weather still continues very unsettled and a further downpour threatens. During to-day the sun shone only a couple of hours…

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Payable Gold

The Australian Star · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 5

A REPORT has been received by the Minister for Mines of the discovery of payable gold in the parish of Burrandong, in the Tumut district, about five miles from Stuart's Town…

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The Boro Silver Mines

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 2

Silver mines are being opened tip at a place called Boro, which is situated about six miles from the Tarrage Railway Station, on the . They are likely to be productive and of…

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What Gold Cannot Buy

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 7

"I am afraid not; but I may make a littLE impression- constant dropping, you know, effects something. I want to convert her to the belief that man does not l…

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Mines at Captain's Flat. the Commodore Vanderbilt

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 3

These mines, of which' there are now only two, arose at the time of the great excitement in silvermining which existed some six years ago. There were three formed into companies, but two have…

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The Mining Industry. Crushings and Assays. Managers' Reports

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 3

A Nugget of Gold.—A nugget of gold valued at £500 is reported to have been found on Messrs. M'lnnes Brothers' property, near Cowra.Broken Hill Junction Silver-mining…

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The Mining industry. Crushings and Assays. Managers' Reports

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 5

Paradise Creek.—A correspondent, writing on March 16, says : Since my last report' the prospectors, M'Cormack and party, are making good progress sinking their shaft, from which they are raising some stone from a reef 12in thick in solid…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 7

The manager of Block 10 is now preparing to put a hump into the winze on the 465ft. level in order to get the water down so that he can resume sinking. In cutting and enlarging the winze the ore was seen to be…

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Bad Mining Laws, the Curse and Blight of the Country. To the Editor

Evening News · Tuesday 31 March 1891 · page 2

Sir,—I now redeem a promise made to one of your staff at Cobargo, some three months ago, by giving a history of 11 months' experience prospecting in different parts of N.S. Wales. I got…

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A New Trial Refused. Liability of Coal Mine Owners

Evening News · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 5

Before the Full Court yesterday the arguments in the appeal by the defendants in the action brought by Francis Ford against the Australian Agricultural Co. were concluded. The action was one…

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Coal Trade

The Australian Star · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- Following is the number of days worked by the undermentioned pits for next pay : -- Wickham and Bullock Island and Brown's collieries,…

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Great Miners' Congress

Evening News · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 4

LONDON, March 31.—A congress of misers of an international character, embracing representatives of British, French, Belgian, German, and Austrian operatives, will…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 7

A letter has been received by the Prospecting Board of the Mines Department from Mr. Thos. Low, reporting having struck payable wash consisting of drift and cement carrying gold…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--Mr. Howell, manager of the Proprietary mine, was interviewed today and stated the rain which has fallen here during the last three days was too…

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The Country. Threatened Strike at Greta Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 5

GRETA, Tuesday.--At the Greta Colliery the usual quarterly cavil was to have taken place on Saturday afternoon, but on the opening of the meeting it was decided not to cavil for places…

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